Rowerdink v. Carothers

This is in effect a bill of complaint filed for construction of a deed in which the grantees are “Alfred Carothers and Delarma Hackett, or the survivor of them.” The decree of the trial court determined that plaintiff, the grantee of Hackett who survived Carothers, is the owner of the property. Defendant who claimed through Carothers, appealed.

The receiver of the. Citizens State Bank of Fife Lake on November 13, 1937, petitioned the circuit court for authority to sell the west half of.the southeast one-quarter and the southeast one-quarter' of the southeast one-quarter of sec 36, T 26 N, R 9…